One of my peeves. Any suggestion that the poor should be directed to vocational education is, these days, immediately labeled “racism.” Every single minority person is supposed to go to college as an Ethnic Studies major and become a social worker or community orgainizer.
That’s the nail on the head and the elephant in the room -
denying a college education to the 1/3 to 1/2 that really don’t belong there will “disproportionately affect minorities” and will be labelled racism.
And being called a racist these days is the equivalent of having leprosy in biblical times. “UNCLEAN! UNCLEAN!”
Or, to some extent, it’s equivalent of being labelled a “witch” in colonial America.
Everyone avoids any possibility of the accusation.